PERRY COUNTY – Ever wonder what it was like to celebrate Christmas in the mid-1800s. If so, Saturday is your chance to come as close to a pioneer Christmas as possible.

The Shubael Little Pioneer Village will welcome guests to an open house and Christmas tour. Hours are 2 to 9 p.m. Activities are planned in each of the restored cabins within the village. There will be caroling, homemade treats and mugs of hot chocolate.

CANNELTON – Cannelton School Board members declined at a regular meeting Nov. 15 to cut pay for noncertified employees.

Teachers agreed to take a 5-percent pay cut, Schools Superintendent Al Sibbitt said, but most of the district’s noncertified employees are teachers’ aides paid through Title 1 funding, so a similar pay cut wouldn’t save any money.

The remainder include only seven employees, and cutting their pay by 2 percent would net only $3,500, he added.

TELL CITY – A civil lawsuit was filed in Perry Circuit Court late last month by a local man claiming police officers used excessive force when they arrested him nearly a year ago as part of a domestic battery investigation.

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TCJSHS to host talent show
TELL CITY – The Tell City Junior-Senior High School will host a talent show at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the high-school auditorium.

TELL CITY – The Perry County Public Library – Tell City branch will host a Christmas story time and caroling experience for all the young at heart from 6 to 7 p.m. Dec. 12.
Tell City native and professional singer and performer Lisa Lawalin McTighe will lead caroling with traditional classic Christmas carols. There will also be a special Christmas story and craft session.
The public is welcome to join the library staff for this Christmas sing-a-long story time and caroling. The program is free to all.

PERRY COUNTY – Epsilon Omega Chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa has added nine new prints to its collection of historic landmarks in Perry County, which the group are selling to the public.

Most of the prints were drawn by the residents in the Purposeful Living United Service program at the Branchville Correctional Facility. The Cotton Mill, Cannelton High School, the old Cannelton courthouse, the old Rome courthouse and the Celtic Cross are depicted in the new prints.